Re: So today I gemmed haste

The DPS differential wouldn't be too much, though it may lose some value given Bloodlust, but its uptime in consideration of fight durations is "meh" to begin with.

On the other hand, with haste, my guess is dropping that spellpower may not seem like a loss but you're burning through your mana faster, and probably would be needing the cooldowns that much sooner, and over the course of full hardmode durations your DPS would go down over time. I can't say the state of Shadow with that much haste, but that's the general feeling I have right now.

Re: So today I gemmed haste

be further tempted. haste wins on multi target fights or any aoe situation. It is a SLIGHT dps loss for single target encounters but the difference in the increase you get in multi dotting and aoe situations is fairly large with enough haste. Ive been switching my gems back personally to more pure SP gems and SP/spirit for socket bonuses and regen but i am making sure I am maintaining over 1200 haste.

I seem to have found a very good medium for both sides of the argument. If our Hard Mode 10 mans were recorded tonight where i pulled #1 on every encounter but Bloodqueen which we all know is just a gimmick fight then i would have numbers to back it but i do not know if it was posted on wowmeters or not.

All in all, I changed roughly 135 spellpower into 122 haste rating. So self-buffed I had 1121 haste (I got the wand after the Festergut).

The result was good I think. No notorious dps drop, nor any signifigent gain. I can't really say the difference in haste made a difference you could feel, but somehow I kinda like it.

But so what to do now. Keep the haste gems, or go back to spellpower

This would seem to corroborate that:

a) SP and Haste are basically equivalent
b) Haste yields linear returns for attainable gear and there are no soft caps or plataeus

I suppose it's good to physically test this out but this knowledge was already known... I suggest you just gem for socket bonuses and thus eek out the maximum amount of stats possible from the gear you have... in addition having SP instead of haste increases your DPM and should be an asset for any hard modes you do or encounters that are unusually long.

Re: So today I gemmed haste

Yeah, and I don't think I'll gem haste in the long run, but it's pretty fun to test out.

Granted it was SIMULATED, but it seems fun enough to try out. However, I'm very tempted to stick with Recless Ametrine for all Red and Yellow sockets (beyond my 3 JC gems). I still got to much crit on my gear

Re: So today I gemmed haste

I've thought about doing this aswell tho i've never been sitting on the amounts of gold to do it, but now I am. But as ICC released I thought it's better to have high dmg than fast dmg?
Sure, you will get more ticks on spikes and adds etc but isn't it better to hit just a little but slower but harder on those things? :S